This book is about an emotion constantly present in human culture and history: fear. It is also a book about literature and medicine, two areas of human endeavo

Described as ‘the most beautiful book ever printed’ previous research has focused on the printing history of the Hypnerotomachia and its copious literary so

Offers an authoritative account of literature and medicine at a vital point in their emergence during the eighteenth century.

Offering an authoritative and timely account of the relationship between literature and medicine in the eighteenth century and Romantic period, a time when most

Medieval literature and art abounds in descriptions of grotesque torments (punitive in hell, redemptive in purgatory) being meted out to the unhappy dead. But h